CTV
Waterloo Architecture Cambridge
Christie
Galt on the Grand
Echo
91.5 The Beat
Cambridge Libraries & Galleries
Chartwell Select
Queen's Square Terrace
For information on other global participants, visit www.unsilentnight.com
2009 Unsilent Night Walk Route
City Departments
Phil Kline's Unsilent Night
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TBD @ 7pm
City Hall, 50 Dickson St.
Unsilent Night was the 2008 Winner of the following awards:
Breakthrough Award at Cambridge Chamber of Commerce Business Achievement Awards! For details click here
Best New Event - KW Arts Awards
Click here for News Footage of the 2008 Inaugural Event
Phil Kline's Unsilent Night is a free outdoor participatory sound sculpture of many individual parts, recorded on cassettes, CDs and mp3s, and played through a roving swarm of boomboxes carried through city streets. Since 1992, this 45-minute work has grown into a worldwide annual communal event that has become an essential part of many winter holiday celebrations.
Experience it for yourself!
Bring your mp3 player with speakers or your portable CD or tape player to simultaneously play an outdoor ambient music piece.
It's like a Christmas caroling party except that we don't sing, but rather carry the music, each of us playing a separate track that is a voice in the piece. We will walk from City Hall through historic downtown Cambridge and return to City Hall for the event's finale. While the ambient music delights your ears, your eyes will be treated to light installations along the route. The light installations will include works by local artists Gary Kirkham, and Gareth Lichty and a project by Vera Guo, a Waterloo Architecture masters student. In addition, Cambridge Libraries and Galleries will be projecting 15 foot high video art by New York City artist, Jillian McDonald, from the second story window of the Queen's Square Library at 1 North Square.
How do you get the music?
The music is divided into 4 tracks each approx. 43 minutes long. You only need to download 1 track. At the event, all the tracks played together make up the entire Unsilent Night piece.
To Download the music click here and then put it on your mp3 or burn it to a CD.
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Receive a free CD or cassette tape at the event. Please email unsilent@cambridge.ca or call 519.740.4681 ext. 4202 to order your free CD or tape.
Do I need a portable music player to participate?
No, if you don't have a portable music player, you are still more than welcome to participate in the walk, hear the music, and see the lights.
Please note that the light projections at the following locations will be running nightly from 5:30-10:30pm, from Tuesday December 22 to Sunday January 3: City Hall; former Marital Arts building at the corner of Dickson and Water; the corner of Main and Ainslie; and on the river side of the CIBC building at the corner of Main and Water.